Some American companies are getting some bad press about their culture of anonymous feedback and their system of performance review. \u00a0The word on the street has it that such systems, called Vitality Curves, where employees are forced annually onto a normal distribution with the bottom of the curve being fired, create a toxic work environment and workers are forced to concentrate on office politics rather than on getting things done. \u00a0So what went wrong with Taylor’s vision of Scientific Management ? \u00a0People got in the way, I suppose. \u00a0The human competitive nature, kill or be killed in the savanna, became up or out in the workplace. \u00a0What a waste of effort. \u00a0Vitality curves do not promote vitality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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